Invited Speakers

INTRODUCTION

  • Alvio Renzini (Italy)


REVIEW TALKS

  • Cristina Chiappini (Germany):
    Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge
  • Natascha Forster-Schreiber (Germany):
    Bulges in high redshift galaxies
  • Oscar Gonzalez (UK):
    Bulges in nearby galaxies
  • Andrea Kunder (USA):
    Bulge structure and kinematics
  • R. Michael Rich (USA):
    Bulge stellar metallicities
  • Juntai Shen (China):
    Dynamical models of the Galactic bulge
  • Elena Valenti (ESO):
    Bulge stellar ages


INVITED TALKS / General

  • Beatriz Barbuy (Brazil):
    The globular cluster system of the Galactic bulge
  • Thomas Bensby (Sweden):
    Ages and abundances of microlensed bulge stars
  • Roger Cohen (USA):
    Bulge stellar populations from HST observations
  • Victor Debattista (UK):
    Chemo-dynamical models of the Galactic bulge
  • Bruno Dias (ESO):
    Chemical tagging of stars based on low-resolution spectroscopy
  • Noriyuki Matsunaga (Japan):
    Interstellar extinction toward the Galactic bulge
  • Dante Minniti (Chile):
    IR variability of the bulge stellar population
  • David Nataf USA):
    He abundances of Galactic bulge stars
  • Alejandra Recio-Blanco (France):
    The Galactic bulge as seen by GAIA
  • Alvaro Rojas-Arriagada (Chile):
    Correlations between kinematics and metallicity of bulge stars
  • Ricardo Schiavon (UK):
    Peculiar bulge stars
  • Igor Soszynski (Poland):
    The Galactic bulge as seen by OGLE
  • Sandro Tacchella (USA):
    Bulge formation scenarios
  • Manuela Zoccali (Chile):
    The mass and  stellar populations of the Galactic bulge


INVITED TALKS / The Future

  • Heino Falcke (The Netherlands):
    Event horizon telescope
  • Livia Origlia (Italy):
    Future surveys of the bulge stellar populations
  • Michele Cirasuolo (ESO):
    The Extremely Large Telescope: the future of European ground-based astronomy


CONFERENCE SUMMARY

  • Ivo Saviane (ESO)